The Mechanicus Priesthood of Naximus Prime

You can find many common notes about the Machine Cult on the Adeptus Mechanicus page.

It is these cybernetics where Naximus Prime gains its greatest renown and proves its indispensable nature to the Imperium. Thanks to the quality of locally mined metals the bionics crafted by the forges here are better made and more reliable than many others. Though the Machine Cult has always been known for its melding of flesh and machine as a religious principle it has reached a stage the majority of the population have bionic modifications, as a result of the artisan skill possessed by the Cybersmiths of Naximus Prime. It is a sign of wealth and beauty, to the people here to not be melded with the machine is an abnormality – the more subtle and delicate bionics considered ‘pretty’ and the larger, more steel and heavy duty types, considered a sign of strength.

The result of this cybernetic mastery is a Taghmata Omnissiah filled with high quality cybernetic troops that stand elevated in the hierarchy of Naximus Prime and a common aspiration of all menial workers. The entire culture of this world is alien to the Imperium, every strata of society assimilated into the Machine Cult, to outsiders, it is a strange and unwelcoming place, even towards other members of the Adeptus Mechanicus, independent, and still thinking of itself as existing in a time when the Mechanicum existed as a separate, and powerful, independent empire. The leading Magos of Naximus have made it clear they see Ferraeus as being overly reliant on the Imperium, a simple vassal world rather than a powerful Mechanicum Forgeworld working hand in hand with an allied power.

Naximus Prime was the last of the Forge Worlds of the Prosperitas Sector to be united with the Imperium. At the far other end of the spectrum from Imperial-welcoming Ferraeus, the Mechanicus of Naximus Prime still act as if they live in the Golden Age of the Imperium, where the Mechanicum was an Empire unto its own. Though it did not declare for the Warmaster, and remained effectively blockaded for the ten thousand years protected by a narrow warp corridor heavily mined and guarded by Mechanicum vessels, post-unification Imperial Forces remain actively unwelcome within this domain, allowed to enter only by the permission of the Arch-Magos of the Forge.

Naximus is served also by the lush Knight-World of Anaximund Alpha, a fertile bread-basket world, Anaximund’s sole duty is to devote its land-space to producing the crops and raising the animals that feed the ever-hungry worker-populations of the Forges on Naximus Prime. The world is defended by the noble warriors and their war-machine steeds of Knight-House Qureshi – the Knight-House is bound by the ancient Sidon Protocols, forging a strange blend of the passionate warlike culture of the Knight House, and the cold logic of the Mechanicum. Effectively enslaved to Mechanicus protocol, the House is often willing to commit to Imperial endeavours when the Masters of Naximus are not, leading to friction. Given that the Household is the only one of its kind in the Sector, and its machines are sorely needed, it has become something of a point of contention between Naximus and its fellow Forge Worlds over attempts by their Magi to forge bonds with House Qureshi.